Lot 764
Xenophon
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographss | 10 May 2007
Description
Opera. Frankfurt: Andreas Wechel, 1596, folio, [12] pp.1013, 1014-1213 cols. [58], contemporary calf gilt, gilt stamp on boards incorporating two fleur-de-lis and two clover leaves, remains of green silk ties, rubbed at edges, some chipping to head and tail of backstrip, title page creased
Footnote
Provenance: Acquisition note and two 17th century ownership inscriptions, one scored out and the other in Spanish, on front free endpaper. Bookplate and label of St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus.
Note: Dibdin II 567, Olivier pl.1088.
A fine folio edition of Xenophon with Greek text and Latin translation printed in double columns with copius notes and indexes found at the end. This is the second edition from Wechel's press with additional notes and a Greek index of words and phrases by Aemilius and Francis Portus. The binding may well have been for a French college or university.